Men&#39;s neckwear



' Nov. 26, 1946. HP AU v 2,411,753

MAN S NECKWEAR Filed April 4, 1945,

IN V EN TOR.

Patented Nov. 26, 1946 OFFICE MENS NECKWEAR Howard Pfau, Cincinnati, Ohio Application April 4, 1945, Serial No. 586,569

1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in neckties, as a made-up ready-to-wear product having a style patterning the conventional four-in-hand type after its application and folding by the wearer, providing a tapering form of knot and flap depending therefrom.

An object of the invention is to provide a madeup ready-to-wear necktie styled to provide a knot with a flap depending therefrom with the alternate face sides thereof adaptable for reversible wear, and either of the same or different fabric, design or color and having a separable, lengthwise adjustable or extensible neckband extending from the opposite sides of the top end of the knot.

Another object is to provide a made-up readyto-wear necktie having opposite face sides adaptable for alternate Wear exposure for increased service and life, simple in construction and produced from a minimum amount of material with a resulting reduction in cost, permitting low price retail merchandizing, particularly for youth's wear.

Various other features and advantages of the invention will be more fully set forth in the following description of the accompanying drawing, depicting a preferred embodiment, in which:

Figure 1 is an elevation of the improved neck- 7 tie.

Figure 2 is a plan view of a band from which the necktie is formed, longitudinalIy as of tapering width, of which the reduced width end'is folded about itself to provide the knot or head fold for the necktie.

Figure 3 is a detailed view, with the reduced width end of the band partly folded to form the knot.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of a tapering sleeve which provides a covering for the knot.

Figure 5 is an enlarged section on line 5-5, Figure 2.

Referring to the drawing, l indicates a flat band or strip of fabric material, as shown in plan Figure 2, of tapering outline longitudinally and may constructively be of double ply or layer form to give increased body or fullness to the band and eliminate the use of any lining or padding layer, for cost reduction; the use of any lining, however, is optional. The tapering plan form of band provides a reduced width end section 2, which is folded about itself as partly shown in Figure 3, to form the knot or head end of the necktie while the major portion of the length of the band increasing in width toward the opposite extremity provides a flat flaring flap 4, for the necktie.

The band, preferably is formed from a single piece of woven fabric material cut to the appropriate pattern outline and longitudinally folded upon itself, with the line of fold forming one edge of the band and the meeting margins of the layers hem folded inwardly and stitched together. As a working facility the folding and stitching can be performed with the reverse side of the fabric outwardly, which converts the band into tubular form and thereafter turned to bring the face side of the fabric outward. Employing a single piece of fabric and folding in forming the band, duplicates its opposite or alternate face sides for reversible wear exposure, and for relatively variating the faces, the band may be formed of strip lengths of different design, color and kinds of fabric stitched or otherwise secured together. The band can also be formed of tubular woven or knitted structure or constitute a knitted single ply or fiat web strip, recognizing the mode and manner of band construction is optional and various different methods may be employed for its production.

The reduced width end or section 2, of the band as illustrated in Figure 3, is folded upon itself along a transverse line to produce a loop 5, forming the head of the knot and a sleeve for the traverse of a neck strap 6; thence proceeding in an oblique direction and about the band with the free end or terminal tucked in beneath the preliminary fold l. The fold is drawn comparatively taut and free end of the band stitched in place, the folding giving a tapering form to the knot and puckering the upper end of the flap at the lower end of the knot.

The knot is then covered by a sleeve 8, for its full dimension, leaving the transverse loop 5, exposed. The sleeve 8, corresponds to the contour of the knot, fitting smoothly and snugly thereover and tacked thereto, against displacement,

' as at the top and bottom of the side edges of the knot by concealed stitching. The sleeve comparative to the band, may be made of a single piece of the same material as the band, variated, or correspond to the various kinds of material as outlined for that of the band. The sleeve conceals the juncture and laps of the folding in form ing the knot and renders the alternate face side available for wear exposure or reversible service. The knot folding gives body and fullness to the head section of the necktie, enhancing its design. To facilitate manufacture the sleeve can be preliminarily slipped over the knot forming end 3, of the band to a position thereon non-interfering sides finished for reversible wear exposure and an end portion thereof folded about itself to form a tapering knot with a transverse loop fold for the head end thereof, a tapering sleeve of a material corresponding to the opposite face sides of the band relatively covering said knot portion and fixed thereto, with the transversely folded head end exposed, providing with the band portion extensive from the sleeve alternate face sides for reversible wear exposure, and a neck strap traversing said transverse 100p folded head end.

HOWARD PFAU. 

